Why FORTIFY exists
This fall I tore my ACL. Soccer is the sport I've built my life around, and the injury took it away for the better part of a year.
The recovery was long, and honestly, brutal. But somewhere in the middle of it, something bothered me more than the injury itself: ACL tears are one of the most common serious injuries in youth soccer, especially for girls, and I'd never done a real prevention program before it happened to me — not because my coaches didn't care, but because they didn't have an easy, accessible way to build prevention into a normal practice.
FORTIFY is my attempt to close that gap — making injury prevention accessible and simple. No equipment, no cost, just fifteen minutes with your team, so the next player learns about ACL tears and the power of prevention before she's hurt, not after.
I'm building the app myself this year. This site is where that work becomes something bigger than one team: a network of coaches and players who bring FORTIFY to their own teams before they need it.